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Agreed that the UI could be WAY more intuitive. There are issues with it default-opening for saving to an unwritable directory (confusing people), not being cl
by fattire 8y ago
Agreed that the UI could be WAY more intuitive. There are issues with it default-opening for saving to an unwritable directory (confusing people), not being clear about why you're there (no way to instruct the user what purpose they're selecting a file for except the "open"/"save" button), the side drawer is not intuitive for new Android users who might not know there are more services beyond the Download folder, etc. There are too-limited sorting options, the MIME filtering could be extended, etc. Older versions of the framework didn't even let you suggest what saved files should be called...
In the case of a sophisticated media player like VLC I totally get your point. The solution before Q was just to ask for the READ/WRITE storage permissions and have full access. I guess they figure that's too broad access for one app to have.
Upsides-- it works great on Chromebooks, integrating with ChromeOS well, and the convenience of seamlessly integrating a single UI with numerous cloud services with no extra SDKs to include or APIs to learn is also a big plus.